Skimmer - Tracking Your Social Networks

Nowadays, we everyone get various kinds of social site activities, Facebook, Twitter followers, Flickr photos and possibly a majority of other social ones. Connected with different friends in different favorite activities, we do wish a comprehensive desktop application for us to follow them in a general but full-scale manner. Hereby, we introduce you a happy medium that is Skimmer, an Adobe AIR desktop client for Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Blogger.

For a better day-to-day social web activities generation, we need to learn about what's new in skimmer, afterwards, skimmer will make it easier and more fun to follow our friends.

Feed View
Skimmer works as an aggregated feed of posts from your friends on Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube and Blogger. Either by service, group or keyword, multimedia content would be distinguished by presence of thumbnails in a very quick and easy way. There is also a cool feature in it. No matter what kinds of updating information included in your friends’ upload, photo, audio even video upload, Skimmer helps you a simple click on it and get a relevant preview.

Slideshow
Once you want to view your Flickr and YouTube photos any time, use skimmer to create a full screen slideshow view, seeing all of your content at a larger resolution and of course without all of the clutter. There is a small slideshow icon next to an image or video. For Flickr View, it is also very simple and functional. Browse your friends' sets in a new way. You will get recent activities of them and enjoy in a high-resolution slideshow at the same time.

Own Social Profile
With all of your friends' recent life streaming content on a single screen, you can customize your information settings appears to your friends. Embed code is optional for any case you want to put customize profile on the web.

Skimmer is very obviously a current beta service with a penchant for visual stimuli. Equally to a content aggregator, life stream and status updater, skimmer aims at striping away some of the features other desktop applications have. Totally speaking, Skimmer has your overall viewing experience enhanced, furthermore provide us a tracking experience on our social network activities.

iPhone OS 3.0 Beta Released

Apple today launched iPhone OS 3.0 software a beta version for registered developers. With over 1,000 new Application Programming Interfaces, iPhone OS 3.0 beta public release contains an updated Software Development Kit. In-App Purchases, Peer-to-Peer connection, accessory interface, music library, Maps and Push Notification are all embodied in new iPhone OS 3.0. Besides, Apple announced that new iPhone OS 3.0 with over 100 new features will come out for iPhone and iPod touch users in this summer.

For this Beta version, over 1,000 new APIs are available today for development and testing in iPhone and iPod touch. Among them the ability to leverage an incredible purchase model of App store is notable. In App Purchases, developers subscribe content and sell new content and features in a simple but secure process. With Bluetooth, peer-to-peer games are created into iPhone and iPod touch.

Another key developer feature is the ability for apps to interface with hardware. A total control for iPhone and iPod touch accessory developers provides a hardware interface experience. Developers can also take the Apple's Maps to integrate Google Mobile Maps Service within apps, including map tiles, current location, custom annotation and geocoding. Moreover, Apple Push Notification service supplies users a mechanism and alert them with sound, text or a badge.

Furthermore, new iPhone OS 3.0 software will be released in this summer, including cut, copy and paste, MMS, audio files and locations with the Messages app, capturing and sending recordings. Landscape in mail, text and notes with search capability, together make developers to search by typing a key word or phrase into the new spotlight search. It's so convenient to access from the home screen. For information share, updated stock app helps to show current news, trading information and a landscape view of any stock chart. Shared calendars right on the iPhone is also available.

The iPhone OS 3.0 beta software now are open for registered developers to download from official website. We can also waiting for iPhone OS 3.0 this summer freely. Like Philip Schiller, the senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing indicated, "The new iPhone OS 3.0 is a major software release packed with incredible new features and innovations for iPhone customers and developers alike. It will keep us years ahead of the competition."

Turn your PC into a music discovery machine on Zune.net

Zune.net was updated by Zune team with several interesting features. Podcast catalog management and music quiz, these two obvious entertainments deserve special attentions.

Podcast catalog management
Previously, we subscribe podcasts that we like. But sometimes, we get the information including unwilling things. Via Zune.net, the entire podcast catalog is updated and now available. The Zune software started when you pick the audio you like and add it to your favorite collection. Besides, Zune.net supports directly streaming more than 12,000 audio podcasts.

Moreover, Silverlight in Zune.net will guide you a fast viewing procedure when you do not like to add the podcast or download to your PC in case of any space occupation. Here, listen on Zune.net directly with Silverlight without subscription or download.

Music quiz
"Zune social" is a new feature. Sometimes, we already had the music and wish to share with others. In Zune, you can connect with friends, artists and fellow fans. Do you want to know the guy owns same music understanding with you? Collect your music, list out any questions about them and add answers in your user profile. Your friends can take it as a quiz and try to find answers out. It is really a "Zune Class". Discuss and talk with them, share related music knowledge!

The same like that, once you get a music library, you can organize the way you want to listen. For example, new music and videos are listing in the front and central place. Zune.net also creates a list with the hot or the new ones at Zune Marketplace for your song recommendation. This is an information share and popular song collection for music lovers. What is worth mentioning, Zune Marketplace is an online store built into Zune software. To search, browse, preview and even purchase a series of millions of songs, TV shows, and of course podcasts. Either you are popular song lover or nostalgic one, discover in Zune!

Apart from that, Zune.net is all the time playing an important part in entertainment development. With their always colorful layout and clean page, users can check out the things needed in a brief way and pleasant mood! The most important thing is, Zune.net include almost newest elements and will focus on it for a very long time!

Try Zune.net! Accept a unique music listening experience and podcast subscription! We are not only listening to the music, see the things happened in internet, but we are also devoting our life to important parts - music and communication! Let's constantly live inside Zune.net and create our profile! If you haven't already, you should check out the Zune 3.0.

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Chatting Experience with iGoogle

Do you ever imagine you would contact with friends even he gets no Gmail account? iGoogle does. The Google developing team released that since today iGoogle users will have their dream come true.

Gmail is popular among those business people for chatting, communicating and email service. But it does bother you more or less. You have to contact with that kind of people who also has Gmail account. But in iGoogle, it is out! Open an iGoogle page, and then send instant messages to your colleague, friend and family. Even they are not Gmail user, you two can talk freely. Furthermore, all the current chat settings in Gmail will be applicable in iGoogle. Try it easy! So much as you can choose chat options and the "sign out of chat" is shown. Never be disturbed when you want!

Moreover, the iGoogle team is now working on multilingual options for users all over the world. Don't worry! Try the English version and have a different chat experience! If you don't see it on your iGoogle page and you simply can't wait to check it out, feel free to opt in by going to www.google.com/ig/v2invite.

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